Drawer-opener.



CHRISTIAN 0. SCI-IAEFER, or SALEM, 01110, assienon or ONE-HALF 'roALBERT H.

WALDE, or sALEM, OHIO.

DRAWER-OPENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1916.

Application filed May 23, 1916. Serial No. 99,326.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRIST AN O. SoHAn- FER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Salem, in the county of Columbiana, State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drawer-Openers; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

This invention relates to a drawer opener.

An object of the invention resides in the provision of a device by meansof which a drawer may be opened easily by force applied to either orboth sides of the center of the drawer, that is to say, a drawer whichis provided with a pair of handles disposed near the ends of the facethereof may be opened by force applied to either of the handles.

A further object of the invention resides in so constructing the devicethat means is provided which cooperates with the equalizing mechanism tolimit the outward movement of the drawer and at the same time arrest themovement of the equalizing mechanism so that it will be in such aposition that the drawer may readily be closed by pressure applied toeither of the handles or to the front face thereof.

A further object of the invention resides in so constructing the devicethat it may readily be applied to a drawer without necessitating theenlargement of the drawer frame.

A still further object of the invention resides in the provision of adevice which may be applied readily to drawers of the ordinaryconstruction without necessitating the reconstruction of the drawers.

WVith these and other objects in view, such as will appear as mydescription progresses, my invention comprises the combination andarrangement of parts as set forth in and falling within the scope of theappended claim.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a sectional view through a drawer and frameshowing the drawer in its extended position and showing the position ofthe equalizing mechanism; Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view showing thedrawer in its closed position, and Fig. 3 is a similar view showing thedrawer in its extended position.

In the drawing a drawer 1 is illustrated,

closed position irrespective of whether or not one or both of thehandles is gripped the following mechanism is provided:

Secured to the bottom ofthe drawer at the rear edge thereof are plates 4to which bars 5 are pivoted, which bars extend toward the forward edgeof the'drawer in angular relation thereto. Additional bars 6 are pivotedto the forward ends of the bars 5 and extend to the forward bar 7 of theframe 2 and are pivoted thereto, at 8. Extending between and pivoted tothe bars 5 and 6, at 9, where the said bars are pivoted to each other,is a link 10. When the drawer is in its closed position, the bars 5 and6 extend in angular relation to each other because of the fact that thecombined lengths of the bars is greater than the distance between theirpivot points 8 and the points where they are pivoted to the plates 4.Secured to the forward bar 7 of the frame 2 and extending toward thebottom of the drawer 1 is a stop member 11 which is located between thebars 6 and directly in the path of movement of the link 10. It will beseen with this arrangement of bars and links that the force applied tothe drawer handles will be equalized and the drawer prevented frombindingon the sides of the frame.

It will further be seen that when the drawer is pulled to an extendedposition that the link 10 will contact with the stop memher 11 andarrest the movement of the drawer. The contacting of this link with thestop member will also arrest the movement of the bars 5 and 6 so thatthey will not move into alinement with the link 10 and so that they willtherefore possess, when the drawer is in its extended position, acertain amount of lead. Thus the bars 5 and 6 will be in such a positionthat when pressure is applied to the handles of the drawer it will beimmediately moved inwardly and will not bind against the frame 2.

While I have illustrated and described aparticular embodiment of myinvention, it

has merely been for the sake of convenience and I do not wish to belimited to that particular embodiment as it is obvious that numerouschanges may be made in the details of construction without departingfrom the spirit of the invention or exceeding the scope of the appendedclaim.

What I claim is The combination with a drawer and a frame therefor, ofbars pivoted to the bottomof the drawer adjacent the rear edge thereof,bars pivoted to the front of the frame, the said first mentioned andsecond mentioned bars being pivoted together and extending in angularrelation to each other a link extending between and pivoted to the barsat their common pivot points and a stop member secured to the forwardbar of the frame and arranged between the second mentioned bars tocontact with the link to arrest the outward movement of the drawer andto arrest the movement of the bars so that they will extend in angularrelationto each other and in angular relation to the link. a

In testimony whereof, I aifix my signature, in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHRISTIAN O. SGHAEFER.

Witnesses:

R. C. KRIDLER, U. H. OAMPF.

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